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Chapter 1171 Alternative Porcelain
It’s not just talk, but Xuantong official kiln porcelain is more expensive, why?Because there are only a few in the Forbidden City.

Chen Wenzhe only knows a few pieces, which are the collections hidden in the Forbidden City.

Like the yellow ground green color flower and bird pattern bowl, this is one of the representatives, because it is very special.

Where is it special?It is not that it is particularly rare, but because it is one of the few official kiln wares in the Xuantong period.

This yellow-ground green-colored flower-and-bird bowl was fired during the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is 6.5cm high, 12.4cm in diameter, and 5.3cm in foot diameter.

The bowl is straight and slightly open, with a deep belly, a straight upper belly, and round feet.

Both the inside and outside are covered with yellow glaze and liguangsu.

On the yellow-glazed ground on the outer wall, two peach trees and four birds are painted in green.

The edge near the mouth is decorated with a circle of green circles, and the foot wall is shallowly engraved with a circle of double circles.

All the tires under the green color pattern have the same engraved outline as the pattern.

The six-character regular script inscription "Xuantong Years of the Qing Dynasty" written in ink on the outsole.

Yellow ground green color is one of the varieties of low-temperature color glaze on-glaze color.

It uses yellow glaze as the ground, and uses green to paint on the dark lines carved by cones.

This kind of decoration method is more common on plates and bowls. If it is official kiln wares from other periods, this is an ordinary product.

But because it was fired in the Xuantong period, it is particularly rare, because its firing is quite satisfactory, not worse than official kilns in other periods.

Of course, the Xuantong period was not without good things.

For example, the yellow-glazed dark cloud dragon plate, which is more expensive in glaze color, is 4cm high, 18.7cm in diameter, and 11.4cm in foot diameter.

Belonging to the old collection of the Qing Palace, this plate is open, with curved walls and round feet.

The six-character regular script of "Xuantong Year System of the Qing Dynasty" in blue and white script in Zuei.

The inner and outer walls of the plate are covered with yellow glaze, and the center of the plate and the outer wall are darkly engraved with cloud and dragon patterns.

As a traditional decorative pattern on court porcelain, the yellow-glazed cloud-dragon pattern has been used in all dynasties, and there are many styles.

According to the regulations of the Qing Palace, the use of yellow-glazed bowls inside and outside is strictly regulated, and only the emperor and empress dowager can use them.

This plate should be the royal porcelain of Emperor Xuantong Puyi in the late Qing Dynasty, so the value is obviously higher.

Chen Wenzhe also needs to make a batch of yellow-glazed porcelain like this. Although some of the ones he made before involve yellow glaze, they are definitely not classics among yellow glazes.

After all, yellow glaze is quite special. In ancient times, no one dared to use it, and naturally no one did it much.

If you do less, the technology will not be very good, and as long as it is good, it must be a royal craftsman.

In addition to the representative of status, some top craftsmen still have some good works.

For example, a group of exotic works in porcelain, the five colors under the glaze of Liling kiln.

This is a representative of porcelain in the Xuantong period, and the Liling underglaze bottle with colorful flower and bird patterns is one of the representative works.

This was made in 1911, the third year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty. It is 30.3cm high, 6.3cm in diameter, and 6.3cm in foot diameter.

The mouth of the bottle is curled, the neck is slender, the belly is long, and the feet are round.

White glaze is applied inside and outside the bottle, and the carcass is light and thin.

The pattern of flowers and birds is painted with five colors under the glaze, and the color is elegant.

The outsole is in blue and white regular script "Hu Province Porcelain Company in the third year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty", with double circles of green color on the outside.

Hu Province Porcelain Company was founded by Xiong Xiling in Hu Province in the 1906nd year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty ([-]).

In the history of modern porcelain making in my country, the five-color underglaze porcelain of Liling Kiln in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China has reached a relatively high level in terms of production technology and decoration, and can be called a wonderful work in the ceramic art garden.

In addition, there are very few works in the feudal dynasty that left the company's money, and this is one of them!
Of course, there are also some normal Xuantong porcelains, such as the blue and white double "Xi" peach bat bowl.

The blue and white double "Xi" character peach bat bowl is 9cm high, 21.1cm in diameter, and 8.5cm in foot diameter. It also belongs to the old collection of the Qing Palace.

The mouth is slightly slanted outward, the wall is curved, the foot is circled, and the blue and white script "Xuantong Years of the Qing Dynasty" inscribed in six-character double-line regular script is written inside the foot.

The outer wall of the bowl is decorated with blue and white flowers, covered with tangled lotus patterns, interspersed with bats and peach fruit patterns, and four groups of double happiness ("囍") characters are symmetrically written.

The Chinese character "Double Happiness" as a decorative pattern on porcelain appeared earlier in folk kilns.

It was occasionally found in official kiln porcelain in the early Qing Dynasty, and appeared in large numbers on official and private kiln porcelain after the middle Qing Dynasty.

During Tongzhi's wedding, more than [-] pieces of porcelain with this theme were fired.

According to the records of the Qing palace archives, this bowl was fired in the first year of Xuantong, that is, 1909.

If this piece hadn't been fired at the moment when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, it shouldn't be of much historical value.

However, who made it three years after the firing, the Qing Dynasty will perish?

There are still many such alternative porcelains, and the most special must be the Xuantong period.

Can you imagine the price of these alternative official kilns?
Taking stock of those rare and expensive Ming and Qing Dynasty ceramics can sometimes surprise you.

For example, domestic ceramics, before the Ming Dynasty, rarely had a bottom line.

Inscriptions of the year on ceramics in regular script began to appear from time to time in the Ming Dynasty and continued until the Qing Dynasty.

After the Ming Dynasty, most official kilns were inscribed with the emperor's year name as the date, which is also called the dynasty inscription.

Among them, there were 16 emperors and 17 reign titles in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhengtong and Tianshun were both Zhu Qizhen's reign titles.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were 12 emperors and 13 reign titles. Tiancong and Chongmei were both reign titles of Huang Taiji.

However, not every year can find corresponding official kiln ceramics.

For example, Jianwen in the Ming Dynasty, this is porcelain that has not left any inscriptions due to the impact of the war.

Hong Xi, this one has only been in office for one year, so he definitely hasn't.

The blank period is relatively famous, and blank porcelain appeared, which is a typical representative of alternative commemorative porcelain.

The blank period is the three dynasties of Orthodoxy, Jingtai, and Tianshun, all of which were affected by the war.

In the Taichang period, because the unlucky emperor only reigned for only 29 days.

In the Qing Dynasty, Tianming, that is, the old slave Nurhachi, often gnawed bark at that time, and his only pursuit was to be able to wear wild boar skin.

Even if he made a fortune later, he definitely didn't have the heart to make porcelain.

As for Tiancong and Chongmei, at that time they were planning to occupy the Central Plains, so they were unable to fire official kiln ceramics in Jingzhen.

The Forbidden City is the royal palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the past [-] years, countless exquisite ceramics from the Jingzhen Imperial Kiln Factory have been transported here.

The dynasties listed above either ruled for too short a time, or were disturbed by wars and had no control over Jingzhen, so none of the official kilns with year marks were left behind.

And even if there are porcelains of this style found, they are mostly fake entrusted inscriptions such as Jiajing, Wanli, Tianqi and Chongzhen.

The Palace Museum has additionally exhibited the emperors of the Qing Dynasty and their corresponding official kiln porcelain, and in addition, there are some "alternative official kilns".

Although these emperors did not reign for a long time, they still seized this short opportunity and laid their own unique "brands" on the top ceramics at that time.

There are very few such official kiln wares in the world, so how much impact will this factor have on the price?And which ones have special appreciation potential?

(End of this chapter)